Place Them All by Yami no tenshi 8
You are the owner of a small planet and you must place the different tribes that are coming to live on it. You will have to choose one field per tribe. Once each tribe will be placed, they will all act the one after the other, depending on the field they have been placed on and depending on their neighbours. With a random generation of the planet set up, every game will be unique.
:checkered_flag: YOUR GOAL : Having the more surviving tribes as possible after every tribes actions, by learning their behaviour.
Controls : :mousethreebutton: Mouse only
Softwares : GameMaker Studio, GraphicsGale, CgMusic, Bfxr.net and Audacity.
Best Score : :trophy: 8 tribes, 13 population
Links
Download Links : http://www.yaminotenshi.com/LD38%20-%20Place%20Them%20All.zip (Works for Windows & Linux, no Mac version, sorry...)
Fixed Version (post compo) : http://www.yaminotenshi.com/LD38%20-%20Place%20Them%20All%20-%20Fixed%20Version.zip Correction of one line of code causing some unexpected behaviours in a few specific cases.
Source Code : http://www.yaminotenshi.com/LD38%20-%20Place%20Them%20All.gmx.zip
Voting Category
:ballot_box: All categories (COMPO GAME)
Have fun !!! :smiley:
Results
:ballotboxwith_check: I really want to thank everyone who tried my game and left a feedback or a vote. It was my second LD participation and, looking at the feedbacks and final result, I think that I managed to create a better gaming experience than the previous one. On my first participation, I was discovering GameMaker Studio, so I chose to create a simple game, mainly focusing on graphics and mood. This time, I wanted to create something more complicated, and my limited knowledge of GameMaker Studio made me lose some precious minutes/hours, and I did not have enough time to polish the graphics and gameplay as much as I wanted. I still need to find this balance to provide both an interesting experience and nice graphics/mood, and of course speeding up my work. This will be for the next LD !
But once again, thank you a lot @huvaakoodia, @elzach, @harusame, @zeriver, @lepatryckduffy, @itssaraficed, @iwa, @ursigames, @koreus7, @tommyflower, @lefaygames, @plepletier, @silkworm-sweatshop, @jupiter-hadley, @dink-dunk, @gris, @realitycheck, @powerspark, @smeax, @hdteav, @caterein, @tylerraz, @those-30-ninjas, @lipsch, @dragonzlay, @smiling-cat-entertainment, @antiwrapper, @siegfriedcroes and @jod !
Ratings
| Overall | 149th | 3.625⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 209th | 3.3⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 84th | 3.725⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 59th | 4⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 200th | 3.55⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 180th | 3.179⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 118th | 3.2⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 235th | 3.2⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 76🗳️ | 78🗨️ |
One thing that I don't get is why the resolution phase always starts from the same location. Couldn't it also start from the first tribe, from a player chosen tribe or always in the same tribe order?
Nonetheless I do like this a lot. Have a :smiling_imp:. It is about the only one of the tribes supported by emoji (humans don't count!).
Really good idea for the start from a player chosen field, I will probably continue a bit the development to have something more polished !!! Thank you for your ideas and advices !!!
Can't we consider this one as a magician -> :santa: ? :grin:
The devil destroying every living thing on the planet made me chuckle though.
I really like the pixel art and the gameplay is cool too!
cheers~
The devil is terrible yes xD
My top score so far is 6 tribes and 9 population
Nice entry GG. Et venant d'un français en plus ;) nice.
If you're going to continue working on it I suggest that it should be a bit longer - maybe some more days or some more advanced mechanics? Anyway, great job! :)
@lepatryckduffy : Merci beaucoup !!! :smiley: My best score is 8 tribes with 13 population, but in perfect conditions, I think you can go up to 15 population.
@tommyflower & @silkworm-sweatshop : Thanks a lot and, yes you are right, if I had more time, I would have add some subtitles so that we can easily read all the sentences without getting a stiff neck :rofl:
@jupiter-hadley : Thank you very much for the video !!! :thumbsup:
@gris : Thank you for the comment !!! Indeed, I did all the tribes voices with my own mouth :notes::scream: and then modified it a bit with Audacity.
Only wish I could have brought it up to full screen. Everything was really tiny on my monitor.
Great game - Great job!
I liked the graphics as well as the sound.
I haven't played anything in this style yet.
Like.. you make a setup and then see how it comes out.
But good work! (:
The interactions are fun to watch and the music brings the right kind of mood to the game and is okay to listen to. The sound effects are very good and it feels like a very polished game overall. Easy to pick and play but with lots of depth and it is very fun and rewarding figuring out which combinations of neighbours works best and which resources to give to each tribe. Overall it just feels very polished!
Well done!
If I was to be forced to give some criticism, I would say that I'd like to see a little bit of explanation of why a race is attacking, why it succeeds or fails, and why the effects are as they are so I can learn.